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Consortium Profile
HWCG LLC is a consortium of deepwater operators and non-operators in the Gulf of Mexico who have come together with the common goal of expanding capabilities to quickly and comprehensively respond to a subsea well containment event to protect people, property and the environment.
HWCG is made up of a diverse and experienced group of deepwater operators and non-operators, representing two-thirds of the deepwater operators in the Gulf of Mexico.
Each HWCG member is committed to a robust, integrated, standardized and sustainable response solution to a deepwater blowout in the US Gulf of Mexico.
As a member of HWCG, each company provides expertise and resources that collectively help achieve HWCG’s ultimate goal of rapid intervention, response and containment.
Each company has made a financial investment to support the development of the group’s deepwater containment response system and committed to a mutual aid agreement, sharing assets and resources in the event of an incident.
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Craig T. Castille, Managing Director
WHAT WE'VE ACHIEVED
These milestones represent a selection of our achievements:
- First permit to resume deepwater drilling in the Gulf of Mexico after the Macondo well incident
- First permit from a permanent facility
- Full operability at depths of 10,000 feet
- An expanded flow back capacity of 130,000 bfpd and 220 million cubic ft. of gas per day
- Faster response times: deployed equipment and capped a test well in just six days, compared to the eighty-seven days needed to contain Macondo